The media we consume are highly influential in shaping reality. This can be particularly detrimental if we are offered an incomplete construction of real life.
The memoir and the series show how in-depth, first-hand storytelling about people
In Guatemala during lockdown, ATD Fourth World Activists make sure that people isolated by deep poverty are not forgotten.
“We’re not going to just hand out money,” he said.
Gathering and analysing data, the children helped ATD and MATI Bangladesh identify hidden aspects of poverty.
speaking out in front of men, the team made sure to have female facilitators on hand
On 14 June 2016, ATD Fourth World succeeded at adding social conditions to anti-discrimination law. From now on, the law (…) Read more →
Marie-France Zimmer, one of ATD’s members with first-hand experience of poverty,
In Peru, ATD Activist Sarita Guevara spends her days helping neighbors, teaching four levels of school, and trying to survive.
We copy two sheets by hand so I don’t have to spend so much on printing.
This article was written after the difficult experience Sofia, Hemed and Micol went through together, as Sofia tried to help her sick sister Peresia.
But when I went to hand over my ID card, the staff in the social services department
Thursday, 24 January 2012 Diana Skelton, Deputy Director ATD Fourth World International, made a speech in the Colloquium “Extreme Poverty (…) Read more →
But in the vast majority of cases, this interest is solely in a person’s first-hand
By Thomas Croft of ATD Fourth World UK. Here he writes about ATD founder Joseph Wresinski and overcoming epistemic injustice.
the immediate lived experience of poverty in a phenomenological sense: the first-hand
The theme of the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty 2021 was “Building Forward Together: Ending Persistent Poverty“.
Without the participation of people with first-hand experiences of poverty and climate
As the first World Humanitarian Summit convenes on 23-24 May in Istanbul, Jacqueline Plaisir, Deputy Director of ATD Fourth World, (…) Read more →
People are thrust into dependency, with no other support than a helping hand.
